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apollo-cackling · 11 months

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I cannot emphasise enough, if your fantasy world has literal magical creatures and beings and cool monsters and people who can shoot magic out of their hands, and the protagonist's just "guy who's rlly good with [weapon we literally have in real life]", how little interest I have in your book

#berserk is different #my rambles #books #also write in the POVs of the monsters for once. ashton and helen's POVs in twig? I live for that stuff it's fascinating #I wonder if it's bc of this fantasy of like 'even in this world where we have xyz，you，too can still conquer it with sheer grit and practice #no fuck that gimme the wizards with the fuck off cool powers gimme the monster/inhuman POVs #if I wanted bland oatmeal why would I read fantasy #if you wanna go for realism go deadhouse gates/baru cormorant or go home #I kid I kid but also not really #also I'm kinda bored with magic systems/powers that boils down to 'make guy fight gooder'#just in the sense that they fight better and not materially do something whose effects is guy fights better #so like 'magic speed enhancer' vs idk 'summon bright flashes that aren't visible to the user' distracting opponents etc #also kinda bored fights with literal magic in them that come down to ending it with a swordfight #in general I just want magic to be *magic* yk #10n

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